Kenneth Hodges
Professor
Office
323 Shanks Hall
181 Turner St NW
Blacksburg, VA 24061
United States
Phone
540-231-6501
Department Membership
Expertise
- Malory
- Medieval Arthurian Literature
- Medieval Literature
Professional Activities
- Modern Language Association
- Medieval Academy of America
- International Arthurian Society, North American Branch
Education
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- M.A., University of California at Berkley
- B.A., Williams College
Research Interests
Awards and Honors
Tony Hilfer Prize for best article published the previous year in TSLL, 2013
Selected Publications
Books
Armstrong, D., and Kenneth Hodges. Mapping Malory: Regional Identities and National Geographies in Le Morte Darthur. New York: Palgrave MacMillan US, 2014.
Hodges, Kenneth. Forging Chivalric Communities in Malory's Morte Darthur. New York: Palgrave MacMillan US, 2005.
Articles
“Guinevere’s Ghost: Spenser’s Response to Malory’s Erotics.” Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England: Literature and the Erotics of Recollection, edited by John S. Garrison and Kyle Pivetti, Routledge, 2016.
“Reformed Dragons: Bevis of Hampton, Sire Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, and Spenser’s Faerie Queene.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 54.1, 2012, pp. 110-31.
“Making Arthur Protestant: Translating Malory’s Grail Quest into Spenser’s Book of Holiness.” The Review of English Studies, vol. 62.254, 2011, pp. 193-221.